The FINANCIAL -- Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ has said he was finding it hard to understand why Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has sent a letter to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan containing the opposition's corruption accusations against the government, instead of filing charges with a prosecutor.

“Does Kılıçdaroğlu not know the address of the prosecutor's office?” Bozdağ asked, speaking on a television program on TV 8.

Kılıçdaroğlu sent a letter by courier to Prime Minister Erdoğan on Sunday which accused a number of Justice and Development Party (AK Party)-run municipalities of high levels of corruption.

Bozdağ in his televised remarks said the AK Party has been in power for a long time and is a strong party with many municipalities. He said not a single corruption file was being processed at any prosecutor's office. He accused Kılıçdaroğlu of trying to sling mud at the government. “Wouldn't it be more apt for him to send that letter via courier he sent to the prime minister to the public prosecutor? The courier is going to the wrong address.”

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